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Keana Richards

Relevant Experience

Doctoral researcher

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Current - 2017

  • Planned and directed multi-year research projects in collaboration with researchers in Psychology, Marketing, Engineering, Management, Mathematics, and Human Development departments across 3 institutions
  • Used logistic regression modeling, ANOVA, mediation, factor analysis, and moderation to analyze impact of identity on decisions relevant to labor market outcomes; processed datasets with over 1000 observations in R using regular expressions and the tidyverse; identified common themes in text responses from survey data during analysis
  • Master’s thesis in Statistics, composed in RMarkdown for reproducibility: designed Qualtrics survey to experimentally test the impact of race and voice pitch on person perception; analyzed dataset in R, using multilevel linear modeling for data analysis and ggplot2 for data visualization; communicated results through international conference presentation
  • GAPSA-Provost Fellow for Interdisciplinary Innovation ($6000): designed A/B test to study the impact of virtual reality intervention on racial prejudice
  • 1.5 hour guest lecture to 200 Social Psychology students explaining the societal impact of intergroup bias and evidence-based strategies to reduce bias
  • Led workshop on Data entry, cleaning, and reproducible data management/analysis practices in R during research assistant training; taught principles of data wrangling and plotting using ggplot2 in R, along with project management skills
  • Supervised psychology honors student in developing experimental research project, culminating in poster presentation and research report

Researcher

Self-Solutions

Washington, DC

Current - 2016

  • Summarized the empirical evidence on how to promote inclusion, safety, and innovative practices in organizations through white papers
  • Composed technical report explaining methodology and implementation of Organizational Health Gauge
  • Developed 360-degree feedback survey to assess the frequency of emotion regulation behaviors among employees

Intern

Columbia Addictions Center

Columbia, MD

2017 - 2016

  • Presented clients empirical research about brain function during substance use
  • Developed evidence-based stress management program and led clients through program during treatment interventions

Education

PhD Candidate, Psychology

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Current - 2017

MA Candidate, Statistics

University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School

Philadelphia, PA

Current - 2017

BA, Psychology (cum laude)

University of Maryland, College Park

College Park, MD

2017 - 2014